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Ebenezer Sandford (1848 – 17 December 1897) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament, representing the City of Christchurch electorate in 1891–1893. ==Biography== Sandford was born in 1848. He arrived in Port Chalmers on the ''Peter Denny'' on 26 July 1874 from London with his wife and two young children. They lived in Mornington near Dunedin, then Arrowtown followed by Invercargill. He came to Christchurch in the mid-1880s. In Arrowtown, he worked for the ''Arrowtown Observer''. In Christchurch, he was a compositor for the ''Lyttelton Times''. Sandford contested the for the City of Christchurch electorate against John Tippett Smith and Eden George. Sandford came first with 1851 votes, representing a majority of 742 votes. Smith and George received 1109 and 637 votes, respectively. George petitioned against the election, arguing that the nominations for Sandford and Smith were received too late by the returning officer, and he was thus the only person who could have been declared elected. The elections petitions court found that whilst the returning officer had made an error, the subsequent election was valid and the petition had to be dismissed. Sandford died on 17 December 1897 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery. His last residence was in Queen Street (since renamed to Queensbury Street) in Burwood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?id=19946 )〕 He was survived by his wife (Maria Eliza Sandford, d. 11 March 1936) and seven children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ebenezer Sandford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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